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other parties went out for pleasure : one under Professor 

 Wright, of Oberlin College, to visit the glaciers, and the 

 other under Henry Collins Walsh, the historian of the party, 

 to kill reindeer. 



During the two weeks that we remained in Greenland 

 we had many opportunities of seeing the characteristics of the 

 Eskimos. At a dance given in the governor's yard a young 

 man from the Miranda failed to find a pa'rtner, but soon an 

 Eskimo, seeing him looking on, brought his wife to dance 

 with him. After the dance the Eskimo came up to him 

 and said, "Tin crowner," meaning that he wanted a crown 

 for letting his wife dance, but I am afraid that he failed to 

 collect the money. 



